Word: wellington
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CORRELLI BARNETT, British military historian: Greatness has nothing to do with morality. A leader gets people to follow him. Napoleon led the French to catastrophe, but they followed him almost to the end. Marlborough and Wellington had greatness. And Hitler, unfortunately. Al Capone was a leader in a primitive environment...
Peterson is now the manager of the fixed income department for Thorndike, Doran, Paine and Lewis, a subsidiary of Wellington Management Co., at which Cabot was a senior partner until April...
...warm waters near the Gulf Stream, cabins were as hot as the food was cold and, because the electric pumps and purifying systems were not working, there was no drinking or bathing water. But in the great rooms of the liner, it was like a mod version of Wellington's ball on the eve of Waterloo. Singers Judy Abbott and Glenn Weston chanted as indefatigably as blackbirds on a spring morn. Bands and discotheques rocked away with Elizabethan abandon. And many young couples were seen to be popping below quite early, leading one ancient mariner to muse that...
Cabot, senior vice president of Wellington Management was officially appointed Wednesday. The announcement came only hours after George Putnam '49, treasurer of the University, was notified that the establishment of a separate management company, wholly owned by the Corporation, would not endanger the tax-exempt status of Harvard's portfolio...
...tremendous sense of humor without being flippant," is one description. Another is: "A typical Wellington, snappy at times but sociable." Oh, well, the British prefer their royals a little naughty, and Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, only daughter of the eighth Duke of Wellington, was seen risking lèese-majesté by shying melons at Prince Charles' head on his recent visit to her parents' Spanish estate. Now Charles, a childhood friend of Jane's, apparently thinks of her as more than just a girl-next-door romance, and so do many of his subjects. When dark...